Niskanen Center
For General Operating Support
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Amount$500,000
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Program
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Date Awarded3/28/2022
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Term24 Months
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Type of SupportGeneral Support/Organization
Strategies
Overview
The Niskanen Center works to advance an open society by active engagement in the war of ideas, direct engagement in the policymaking process, and through the courts with amicus briefs and pro bono representation. It develops policy proposals, mobilizes other groups to support those proposals, promotes those ideas to legislative and executive decision makers, builds short- and longer-term coalitions to facilitate joint action, establishes strong working relationships with allied legislative and executive branch actors, and marshals the most convincing arguments and information in support of its agenda. In late 2021 the Niskanen Center launched a new State Capacity Project to investigate and suggest remedies for the declining quality of public administration in the United States in recent decades.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
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Grants to this Grantee
for advancing state capacity in the legal academic community
The Niskanen Center advances prosperity and human flourishing through policies promoting social insurance, public goods, market competition, and state capacity. With support from this grant, the center will host a workshop examining legal issues surrounding state capacity — i.e., the capacity of government to implement policy effectively and efficiently. The workshop aims to foster increased attention from the legal academic community on issues of administrative burden and government effectiveness. The project seeks to contribute to enhancing the government’s capacity to address America’s pressing challenges through more efficient policy implementation and improved public service delivery.
for the Climate program
The Niskanen Center promotes policies that advance prosperity, opportunity, and human flourishing, guided by the belief that a free market and an effective government are mutually dependent. Niskanen formulates economical and effective policies that reduce the magnitude and impact of climate change through original research, analysis, writing, building coalitions, and legal work. Niskanen’s Climate program prioritizes work on transmission reform, critical minerals, clean firm technologies, and carbon pricing and trade.
for general operating support
The Niskanen Center is a nonprofit public policy organization dedicated to strengthening liberal democratic governance and promoting widespread prosperity and opportunity. It works to articulate, promote, and defend liberal democracy, drawing on philosophy, history, political science, and political economy.
